plastic surgery photos is one of my stupid hobbies and here are my collected brutal opinions about this
99.9% of rhinoplasties, boob implants and BBLs look worse than before and/or were pointless, horizontal moves. the people in the plastic surgery communities will egg you on and say your results look "better" or "natural" but almost all of them have body dysmorphia brainworms and dont know what anything actually looks like and have television opinions about what looks like a "natural" unmodified human
even though BBLS are usually really bad, fat grafting is usually pretty good, but it seems to be unreliable and resorption is completely unpredictable. this sucks because it really gives the best results in terms of volume transfer
i really really hate BBLs. i have seen one (1) BBL where the surgeon bothered to contour the stomach so it looked like anything other than a blotchy, stretched sheet of drywall. dont get me started on how shitty everyone's hips turn out, its like the doctor has only heard the human body vaguely described by aliens
you shuld be allowed to do whatever surgeries you want for whatever reason you have but most people have bad reasons and are wasting their money and taking pointless medical risks for mediocre results. you should have mandatory "this is what everyone actually looks like" classes starting in preschool and then a booster unit every year until you graduate. idk what the syllabus would be but i could teach it, easy
rhinoplasties IN PARTICULAR are almost always the wrong choice unless you have really really bad asymmetry, a deformity of some kind, etc, and any nosejob that involves a bridge reduction is going to look weird because they cant easily take down your nasion because its part of your skull. so you can ALWAYS tell when someone with a big nose tried to surgically buttonize and has this big prominent nasion leftover
almost everyone who got a chin implant should have gotten a bigger one, and chin implants and jaw enlargement generally should be a much more common surgery if your goal is to "look better". something happened in the last few centuries that made almost all of us develop recessed lower jaws (possibly changes in food texture) and now like 80% of the global north has an underbite. John Mew is a crackpot completely, mewing doesnt work for adults, BUT hes right that human jaw shape used to be really different. i mean we have skeletons of ancient people in large quantities, you can just look at them. this is like the first thing serious celebrities of both genders get fixed in their lifelong processions of plastic surgery but for some reason the general population of civilian surgical clients dont notice or prioritize it even though everyone you see in expensive hollywood movies looks like they can crack walnuts with those things and its universally considered a desirable facial feature. without exaggeration, almost everyone posting their boob jobs, nose jobs, and fillers in plastic surgery communites should have spent the money on a chinplant first before proceding to less important areas
BUT: for some reason chin implants trigger really really bad surgical regret/dysphoria during recovery for tons of people! even if the chin objectively looks completely normal and fine. not sure what the reason for this is, maybe humans are just visually sensitive about our chins
aAND: there seems to be an ongoing problem where surgeons are upselling clients who have already taken pre-anesthesia meds to tack on a chin implant last minute. this is crazy but i just read about ten of these stories on reddit. this likely accounts for some of the high regret rates
most chin implants are angled too far downwards to follow the typical 45 degree angle of the recessed jaw. probably most chinplants should be balanced by rear masseter augs to change the jaw angle itself. this is how celebrities get them installed
fillers continue to be a bad idea, in my opinion. more and more surgeons are starting to find out they are not "wearing off", they're migrating around unpredictably, and i would put $50 on fillers causing autoimmune problems. i think they are dangerous and should be avoided. also they usually look bad
blepharoplasty and minor facelifts starting in your 40s appear to be one of the best investments you can make in terms of long term structural collapse prevention.
if you arent dealing with some sort of actual medical problem or deformity, any facial cosmetic procedure that involves removing fat or paralyzing muscles seems to be a really big mistake prior to your 50s or 60s, because the volume loss, functional interruptions to normal muscle movement, and unpredictable symmetrical issues are going to age you rapidly. teenagers getting facial fat dissolvers is fully insane
botox is a valuable medical tool for migraines etc but imo it is not a good wrinkle treatment. laser and microneedling starting in your 30s to prevent fine lines establishing themselves as wrinkles is the better choice because again, paralyzing your FACE is not a good payoff and makes you look bad and weird. i cannot believe we have normalized this. i mean i can, society loves it when women do not express themselves etc. so glad this is becoming less and less acceptable
arm lipo/kybella should probably be more popular than it is. again, celebrities basically do not have arm fat ever, so its odd that this surgery is not more popular. i think i heard once that the bicep area is just really saggy so arm lipo is tricky because you usually need a bingo wing skin lift and the scars are impossible to hide. maybe theres some way to dogear the slack inside the armpit crease or something idk
here is my all time largest plastic surgery opinion: if you as a parent take your completely normal-looking minor child to a plastic surgeon to have their SLIGHTLY protruding or unusual-shaped ears surgically pinned back or normalized, you should have your children taken away from you and you should be prosecuted criminally. i am dead serious about this
